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title: Checking a hurtful post again and again feeds the hurt; muting a cha… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Checking a hurtful post again and again feeds the hurt; muting a chat at night can help. Who acts: Checking, muting. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 7

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Checking a hurtful post again and again feeds the hurt; muting a chat at night can help.

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**Who acts:** Checking, muting · **What happens:** check, feed, mute, help · **To what, where:** hurtful post, hurt, chat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Checking, muting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:7
# text = Checking a hurtful post again and again feeds the hurt; muting a chat at night can help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	muting	mute	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund |  | a hurtful post |  |  | again |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | present | Checking | the hurt |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Recipient |
| 3 | **mute** | gerund |  | a chat |  |  | night |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chat=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | can | muting |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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